Agreed. We already know how to establish trust. That is by being trustworthy. It is a system devised by nature, however clumsey or inefficeint it may be. If you make a misjudment of trust in the animal kingdom and your dead. i.e. a gazelles don't make alliances with lions.Agreed. We already know how to establish trust. That is by being trustworthy. It is a system devised by nature, however clumsy or inefficient it may be. If you make a misjudgment of trust in the animal kingdom and your dead. i.e. a gazelles don't make alliances with lions.
I may be short sighted, but the only practical application I can see is gaining trust where it hasn't been earned. This, by the way, isn't a new concept.